Eat Smart!

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Program Description

Eat Smart! was an Award of Excellence program that recognized and promoted Ontario food premises that met standards of excellence in nutrition, food safety and compliance with the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. The goal of the program was to contribute to the reduction of food-borne illness and chronic diseases in Ontario.

The program had four components - a Healthy Restaurant Program, a School Program, a Workplace Program and a Recreation Centre Program. See the program overview and presentation that provide an outline of the programs. For more information about the programs, please refer to this background note.

Status

As of 1st April, 2013, the Eat Smart! program stopped being coordinated provincially by the NRC. To view the transition letter, please click here.

Eat Smart!® print materials are the responsibility of individual health units who wish to continue to run the program. Organizations that use the term Eat Smart!®, the Eat Smart!® logo or Eat Smart!® marks do so at their own risk.

Eat Smart! resources, including the Eat Smart! calculator, can be accessed below:

Funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, the Nutrition Resource Centre (NRC) has operated under the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) since 1999 and is one of 14 health promotion resource centres operating in Ontario. The NRC strengthens the capacity of health promotion professionals and community partners involved in healthy eating and nutrition across the health continuum. Through networking and collaboration, the NRC is fostering knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) and is building a centre of excellence in evidence-based resources and tools to support program and policy development throughout Ontario.